Resource Allocation Effects of Price Reactions to Disclosures

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 385-410

  Dye, Ronald A ^a   Sridhar, Sri S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosures; Information; Market prices; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346678552     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/6XYN-E8F1-BW3F-CUCU     Document Type: Article

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